| Pavel Bouse | 2016 | The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture | Profesors : Martin Søberg, Peter Alexander Bullough The post-industrial Amager in Copenhagen crumbles in front of the pragmatic future of the developer. This project tries to find a position between the current uncontrolled development and the developer’s effort for its reformation. Trying to find an alternative to a systemati

Source: Brandlhuber website Photography: Erica Overmeer Located in Berlin-Wedding, the multi-use atelier and gallery building combines different forms of usage. Although the area has no binding land-use plan, a regulation from 1958 only permits the construction of commercial buildings. Yet at the same time, an ongoing grandfather clause also ensures that the area remains essentially a residential zone. In this c

source: O’Donnell+ Tuomey photography: Michael Moran, O’Donnell + Tuomey The intention of the project is to accommodate the energies of existing community activities within a new building, a place apart integrated within the larger consistency, a knot in the grain of the given pattern. Four separately functioning blocks emerge from a single storey plinth which is cut out to form four courtyard garden

| Jonas Virsik | 2016 | Master course 1 | Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio | Professor: Junya Ishigami Coastal area around Finsbay on the eastern side of Harris Isle, Scotland The island has been shaped over the course of millions of years by glaciers and the strong wind which together created an almost lunar-like rocky landscape. Due to the current isolated forms of housing, acting only as a shelter agai

source: afasia photography: Johan Dehlin Two former workshops, originally a coach house and works building bearing marks of the continual small alterations and adjustments over 200 years, nestle landlocked behind 3 & 4 storey terraced houses that define a city block. Oscillating between workshop, home and office, home, office, workshop, home again since the late 1990’s and the accompanying stream of small ch

Source: O’Donnell + Tuomey website Photography: Dennis Gilbert The location of this primary school for 500 children is in a large suburban housing area with few facilities, where social deprivation is widespread. The social conditions in this area of Dublin led to the inclusion of special facilities for pre-school children, children with special needs and facilities for the care of children outside school

| Tilde Tolberg | 2016 | Afgangsprogram | KADK | Professor: Christoffer Harlang + Nicolai Bo Andersen + Victor Boye Julebæk When it feels uplifting and healing to go for a walk in the woods, just as the beech has sprung, it is because of the constant interplay between all our senses. I believe this is the same thing that happens when we experience good architecture or feel at home somewhere. It is through the se

Source: Karamuk Kuo Architekten Photography: Mikael Olsson The extension for the Weiden secondary school, housing a gymnasium and 24 classrooms, sits on the eastern part of the site between the existing secondary and primary school buildings. The compact form of the new building preserves the park-like character of the campus and turns the existing plinth into a collective schoolyard that connects the old and th